Self-focusing: past and present: fundamentals and prospects / ed. by Boyd R.W., Lukishova S.G., Shen Y.R. - New York: Springer Verlag, 2009. - xxvii, 605 p.: ill., charts. - (Topics in applied physics; 114.). - ISBN 978-0-387-32147-9; ISSN 0303-4216  Место хранения:   053 | Институт лазерной физики CO РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

Preface ......................................................... v List of Contributors ........................................ xxiii Part I Self-focusing in the Past 1. Self-Focusing and Filaments of Light: Past and Present ....... 3 Y. Ron Shen 2. Notes on Early Self-Focusing Papers ......................... 21 John H. Marburger Reprint of Review Paper J.H. Marburger, Self-focusing: Theory, Progr in Quant Electron 4,35-110(1975) 3. Optical Self-Focusing: Stationary Beams and Femtosecond Pulses ..................................................... 103 G.M. Fraiman, A.G. Litvak, V.I. Talanov, and S.N. Vlasov 4. Self-Focusing of Optical Beams ............................. 129 R.Y. Chiao, Т.К. Gustafson, and P.L. Kelley 5. Multi-Focus Structure and Moving Nonlinear Foci: Adequate Models of Self-Focusing of Laser Beams in Nonlinear Media ............................................ 145 V.N. Lugovoi and A.A. Manenkov 6. Small-Scale Self-focusing .................................. 157 Anthony J. Campillo 7. Wave Collapse in Nonlinear Optics .......................... 175 E.A. Kuznetsov 8. Beam Shaping and Suppression of Self-focusing in High-Peak-Power Nd:Glass Laser Systems ..................... 191 Svetlana G. Lukishova, Yury V. Senatsky, Nikolai E. Bykovsky, and Alexander S. Scheulin 9. Self-focusing, Conical Emission, and Other Self-action Effects in Atomic Vapors ................................... 231 Petros Zerom and Robert W. Boyd 10.Periodic Filamentation and Supercontinuum Interference ..... 253 Xiaohui Ni and R.R. Alfano 11.Reprints of Papers from the past ........................... 265 (1) G.A. Askar'yan: Effects of the Gradient of a Strong Electromagnetic Beam on Electrons and Atoms, Sov. Phys. JETP 15, 1088-1090 (1962) -First paper on self-focusing and self-trapping. (2) V.I. Talanov: On Self-focusing of Electromagnetic Waves in Nonlinear media, Izv. Vuzov, Radiophysica, 7, 564-565 (1964) - First time translation from Russian. (3) M. Hercher: Laser-induced Damage in Transparent Media. Presents the first laboratory observation of self- focusing. This paper is published here for the first time in its entirety. Previously, only the abstract had been published in J. Opt. Soc. Am., 54, 563 (1964). Part II Self-focusing in the Present 12.Self-focusing and Filamentation of Femtosecond Pulses in Air and Condensed Matter: Simulations and Experiments ... 297 A. Couairon and A. Mysyrowicz 13.Self-organized Propagation of Femtosecond Laser Filamentation in Air ....................................... 323 Jie Zhang, Zuoqiang Hao, Tingting Xi, Xin Lu, Zhe Zhang, Hui Yang, Zhan Jin, Zhaohua Wang, and Zhiyi Wei 14.The Physics of Intense Femtosecond Laser Filamentation ..... 349 See Leang Chin, Weiwei Liu, Olga G. Kosareva, and Valerii P. Kandidov 15.Self-focusing and Filamentation of Powerful Femtosecond Laser Pulses ............................................... 371 V.P. Kandidov, A.E. Dormidonov O.G. Kosareva, S.L. Chin, and W. Liu 16.Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Collapsing Ultrashort Laser Pulses ............................................... 399 Alexander L. Gaeta 17.Some Modern Aspects of Self-focusing Theory ................ 413 Gadi Fibich 18.X-Waves in Self-Focusing of Ultra-Short Pulses ............. 439 Claudio Conti, Paolo Di Trapani, Stefano Trillo 19.On the Role of Conical Waves in Self-focusing and Filamentation of Femtosecond Pulses with Nonlinear Losses ..................................................... 457 Eugenijus Gaizauskas, Audrius Dubietis, Viaceslav Kudriasov, Valdas Sirutkaitis, Arnaud Couairon, Daniele Faccio, and Paolo Di Trapani 20.Self-focusing and Self-defocusing of Femtosecond Pulses with Cascaded Quadratic Nonlinearities ..................... 481 Frank W. Wise and Jeffrey Moses 21.Effective Parameters of High-Power Laser Femtosecond Radiation at Self-focusing in Gas and Aerosol Media ........ 507 G.G. Matvienko, S.N. Bagaev, A.A. Zemlyanov, Yu.E. Geints, A.M. Kabanov and A.N. Stepanov 22.Diffraction-Induced High-Order Modes of the (2+1) D Nonparaxial Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation ................ 517 Sabino Chavez-Cerda, Marcelo David Itube-Castillo, and Jandir Miguel Hickmann 23.Self-focusing and Solitons in Photorefractive Media ........ 547 E. DelRe and M. Segev 24.Measuring Nonlinear Refraction and Its Dispersion .......... 573 Eric W. Van Stryland and David J. Hagan Index ......................................................... 593